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[quote]That was one of my biggest complaints about this movie... the villains were lame, Rose possibly the lamest of them. Her sidekick Crow(?) and the blonde girl with the power to 'push' were more intriguing, but they also get beat pretty easily by Danny and the girl.[/quote]
Mike Flanagan beefed the villains up substantially from the novel, where they never kill any of Danny's allies - King makes a point of saying that the True Knot are weak combatants because they are accustomed to targeting defenseless children.
Flanagan also made them more loathsome via the scene where they feed from the torture of the "baseball boy" and the entire climactic duel with Rose at the Overlook Hotel sold her as psychic powerhouse much more effectively than in King's book.
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Thanks! :) I love unresolved, open-to-interpretation and downbeat endings, too ... they leave your mind whirling when a film ends.
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It is. It seems like J.D. Dillard's next project is going to be 'Star Wars' film, so I guess 'Sweetheart' had a few fans!
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It's an absurdist satire - the film doesn't really strive to depict realism.
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I felt the same way about 'Okja', which became a little too nasty for my tastes. Have you seen any of Bong Joon-Ho's other films?
All of them mix comedy together with dark themes to heighten the impact of the social commentary and character arcs.
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Thank you :)
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[quote]It actually mind of reminded me of a female Goodfellas-lite.[/quote]
Martin Scorsese was actually approached to direct 'Hustlers'.
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That's a good list!
Yes, I liked the special effects in 'Godzilla: King of the Monsters', too, although the story-line was lacking. 'Godzilla vs. Kong' should be interesting.
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Thanks! It's a spoiler-free review :)
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They definitely did a good job of telling a large-scale story on a small-scale budget.
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My pleasure :) Yes, I hope it does well, too... it was my favourite film of 2019!
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It wasn't for me, but I'm glad you enjoyed a film :)
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The flooding accentuated the differences between the two families: one family lives above the hills, and the other lives below a flood zone.
The rich house feels like an isolated castle, the poor house couldn’t have any privacy, because this gap between rich and poor really draws from access to privacy. All the pedestrians and cars passing by had to be able to see inside the poor family’s semi-basement home. Semi-basement means you’re half above the ground, half beneath it. They still want to believe that they’re over ground, but carry this fear that they could fall completely below. It’s that limbo state that reflects their economic status.
The spectacular flood that flows down from the wealthy area of the city and destroys the Kims’ entire neighborhood with waist-deep sewage water is a reference to this almost dystopian class stratification. That entire flood sequence was important thematically, because water always flows from top to bottom, so it felt like water flowing from the rich neighborhood to the poor neighborhood ultimately submerged the home of the protagonists.
The flood sequence is the turning point for the Kims, and not because all of their possessions are destroyed, but because of the sharp contrast between their situation at the beginning and at the end of the same night. For example, Ki-woo (Choi Woo-sik), the Kim son, starts the evening daydreaming about marrying into the Park family while reverently reading Park Da-hye (Jung Ji-so) teenage journals, and finishes the night crawling through water and clinging onto the scholar rock, a lead-heavy symbol of everything he wants to become, but which ultimately crushes his skull.
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It was definitely an eye-opener.
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I'm sorry to hear about your experience regarding the audio - that's a real shame!
I saw 'Loving Vincent' at a media screening in a small theater (before it's wider release in cinemas) and the sound design complimented the lush visuals.
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I usually include a paragraph so people can get some idea of what my review is going to be like before they (with any luck) click through to the site and continue reading. My full review also discusses the original (the 2008 French film 'Mark of an Angel' by Safy Nebbou) and goes into deeper detail regarding the strengths and weaknesses of this new interpretation.
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I think they could have trimmed some of the internal monologue that only served as exposition but, overall, I didn't have a huge problem with it.
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In the comic book, Veidt hired science fiction writer Max Shea, surrealist artist Hira Manish, and a large number of other writers (like James Trafford March), artists (like Linette Paley), and scientists – who are under the impression that they were being employed as part of a top-secret movie production – to live on a privately owned island for a period of several months, in which time they conceptualize and engineer the monster.
The brain was created by stealing that of deceased psychic Robert Deschaines and cloning it, augmenting it considerably in the process as a psychic resonant device. The monster was engineered and bred with nightmarish imageries from the creations of the abovementioned scholars (Paley's sounds, Shea's descriptions, Manish's images), which derived from its supposedly alien world.
Veidt teleports his monster into the heart of New York City. As predicted, large sections of its body (namely its tentacles) explode upon arrival, causing considerable collateral damage and killing the creature instantly. Its death generates a massive psychic shockwave from within its brain, killing half of the population of New York City. Since it's brain is programmed with gruesome images (such as infants of its species chewing their way out of their mother's womb), these images and sounds caused many of the survivors of the monster's death to go insane, and Veidt mentions that psychics around the world will have nightmares for years after the event.
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'Rampant' is watchable, but if you want to watch a better South Korean zombie film, I'd recommend 'The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale'. If you're more interested in South Korean hack-n-slash action films set during the Tang Dynasty, 'The Great Battle' is excellent.
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I watched at it the Jewish International Film Festival in Australia.
It should be available on VOD / Blu / DVD elsewhere. Maybe try iTunes first?
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